From the same company that brought us the Insight Lactate Threshold Muscle Oxygen monitor, BSX Athletics has again turned to Kickstarter to bring the LVL Hydration Monitor to life. Currently live on Kickstarter, the LVL is a wearable that among other things claims to offer live updates on your current hydration.
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Staying hydrated can be an uphill battle both on and off the bike, and former Team Sky, BMC, and Tinkoff-Saxo coach Bobby Julich says that you lose seven to ten percent of your power when you’re dehydrated.
The idea for the LVL Hydration Monitor came after BSX Athletes founder, Dustin Freckleton, suffered a dehydration-induced stroke that left him with temporary paralysis needing to relearn how to walk.
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The LVL uses a wrist-based red light, which BSX says it has spent the past four and half years developing, that can measure ten times deeper into the body than the green light utilized by most optical heart rate sensors, and can accurately determine heart rate and hydration level. BSX also says its red light, named Near Infrared Light (NIRS), is also eight to ten times more accurate than green light sensors.
According to the LVL Kickstarter page: “As the light passes through the body, each wavelength is absorbed and reshaped in a unique way that allows us to generate a spectrographic 'picture' of the water content and other physiologic activities happening in the body at that point in time.
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